gamlss.data (version 4.3-4)

film90: Film revenue data for the 1990's

Description

Data from film revenues from the 1990s'.

Usage

data(film90)

Format

A data frame with 4031 observations on the following 14 variables.

time

Date of release of the film

year

the year of release of the film

month

a factor, the month of release of the film

title

a factor indicating the tittle of the film

borev0

real box office revenues, calculated in 1987 prices

lborev0

the log of real box office revenues, calculated in 1987 prices

nosc

the number of screens

lnosc

the log of the number of screens

boopen

box office opening revenues calculated in 1987 prices

lboopen

the log of box office opening revenues calculated in 1987 prices

borev1

the box office revenues after the first week, borev0-boopen

lborev1

the log of box office revenues after the first week

dist

a factor indicating whether Independent or Major distributor

whetherCost

a factor with levels 0 1 indication whether the original data has the cost of the film to make

Source

Data collected by Prof. John Sedgwick

Details

Those data are analysed in Voudouris et. al. (2011)

References

Gilchrist, R., Rigby, R., Sedgwick, J., Stasinopoulos, S., Voudouris, V. (2011) Forecasting film revenues using GAMLSS, in Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Statistical Modeling ed: Conesa, D., Forte, A., Lopez-Quilez, A., Munoz, F., 263-268, Valencia, Spain.

Voudouris V., Gilchrist R., Rigby R., Sedgwick J. and Stasinopoulos D. (2011) Modelling skewness and kurtosis with the BCPE density in GAMLSS. Journal of Applied Statistics

Examples

data(film90)